interword
8.2
Happening between two words in speech or writing
- adjective
- /ˌɪntərˈwɜrd/
- Specialized
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interpalabra
- The professor explained how interword spacing affects the readability of written documents.
Examples
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In text analysis, understanding interword relations helps clarify meaning and flow.
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Children must learn to control variation that is a socioindexical marker of talker identity and discourse register, and also variation that is an allophonic marker of prosodic position and interword segmental coordination.
Academic text (2012) -
To improve language processing, researchers focus on interword patterns in speech recognition.
Surface Forms
interword positive
Morphology
Etymology
The adjective interword combines the prefix inter- ('between') and the simple word, just like international uses inter- to mean 'between nations'. So interword means 'between words' and describes things that happen in the small space or time between words.
